Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1887-12-27
FULL OF FUN.

Even n doctor who speaks only
one language may yet understand a
great many tongues. Popular Sci
ence.
"A cow-path is not as bright as the
moon or stars, but is "milky way"
just the same. Charleston Enterprise.
Then you don't like hashP" said
the landlady sternly. II don't object
to hash" exclaimed the boarder, '.it's
rehash kick Mt.
"A messengor-boy was seen run
ming with frightful rapidity the other
day. He had message for a GENTLE
man at the Polo Grounds. Pack
After man has INDUCED in q
long paroxysm of coughing nothing
annoys him more than to have some
body ask him if he has got a cough.
When young man sits in the
parlor talking nonsense to his best
girl, that's capital But when he has
to stay in of evenings after they re
married, that's labor. -.Judge
Old LADY, think it is perfectly
awful the way the young men of to-
day are captivatcd by games of chance,
don't youP" Old Gentleman-"O. no,
ma'am; I'm a regular attendant at
the baseball games myself"
They both kick
Boys differ very much from guns,
AS all experience teaches;
Boys Kick, when kicking, with their boots,
But guns kick with their brooches.
Golden Days.
Bartender to custome)-"You
are putting water in your whisky. sir.
1 thought you always drank 1t
straight Customer (hastily)-
"Why, so do. forgot myself for
the moment" Bartender That's
what thought Well. how is the
milk business, Mr.. YellohP"-M y
Sun.
The definition of wedding" in
the fashion vocabulary means grand
crisis of clothes; bride" peg on
which finery of all kinds is hung;
bridegroom" sober, black object
following the bride, of no account
in particular, yet without whom there
would be no fuss, and the fun could
not go on.
With two forms pied" and in
state of "innocuous desuetude," tho
editor on the sick list part of our new
material ut the bottom of the Red
river. and our new press delayed by
bridge accident, we really must apollo
gize for any thing unusually dizzy in
the appearance of our paper to-day
Tyler. (7ex.) Tribune
-"Gracie," said the fifty-cent-ex-
oursion-young-man, rs they leaned
over the brink of the falls and saw the
river leap out and go swirling and
into the gorge, "Gracie,
why is my love for you like them
ceaselcss movin' watersp" "Causo
it's all gush," she simpered. and he
groaned softly TO himself: "Another
fifty cents wasted. "-Bu0alo Courier.
"A lady had in her employ an ex-
collent girl, who had ono fault-her
face was always grimy. Mrs. x,
to tell her to wash her face
offending her, at last resorted
to strategy. 'Do you know, Bridget"
she remarked, in a confidential man
ner, "that If you wash your face every
day in hot soap-and-wator IL will make
you beautiful" "Will it, now?" an
5wered the willy Bridget. "Sure, it's
a wonder We never tried it. ma am"
-Harper's Bazar
IL don't see why your friend Miss
Smith referred to my mustache as
down, Maudc," said young Sissy to
lis pretty cousin. There is nothing
If the down about it; it quito bristles.
have to shave twice week, l assure
'ou." II know it bristles, Charley"
eturned the girl. knitting her brows,
although not very fiorcely, and l am
IS much perplexed as you arc to
why Clara should speak of
as down. Sudden happy thought)
'erhaps, Charley, it's because it grows
n IA goose. IN Y Sun.
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